Here's a wee tutorial for a cute and blingy rhinestone onesie, but it's a handy cheat version that uses heat transfer vinyl (HTV) rather than hotfix rhinestone diamantés :)
I recorded a video tutorial if you fancy watching rather than reading.
I recorded a video tutorial if you fancy watching rather than reading.
Real Rhinestones Versus Chrome HTV
Silhouette sell a rhinestone kit, but ever the cheapo, I decided to just make my own.
I downloaded a rhinestone bow design from the Silhouette Store and cut out the design on card. This template allowed me to arrange the rhinestones into the bow shape with the correct spacing and I used an iron to fix the rhinestones. Whilst this process seems quick and easy, the rhinestones took me ages to arrange into their positions and kept flipping over.
I read on the wonderful blog Silhouette School a tutorial for HTV rhinestones and thought I'd give it a whirl. Instead of glitter, I used gold chrome heat transfer vinyl (iron on garment film) from MDP and I think the finish is fab.
I downloaded a rhinestone bow design from the Silhouette Store and cut out the design on card. This template allowed me to arrange the rhinestones into the bow shape with the correct spacing and I used an iron to fix the rhinestones. Whilst this process seems quick and easy, the rhinestones took me ages to arrange into their positions and kept flipping over.
I read on the wonderful blog Silhouette School a tutorial for HTV rhinestones and thought I'd give it a whirl. Instead of glitter, I used gold chrome heat transfer vinyl (iron on garment film) from MDP and I think the finish is fab.
Real rhinestones on the left, gold chrome HTV cheat version on the right
Benefits of HTV over hotfix Rhinestones
Faster and no weed - the HTV peels off in one go without any time consuming weeding of internal spaces.
Resizable - The size of the design isn't restricted by fixed stone sizes, so you can resize to any dimension.
Flat - More comfortable for babies to lie on flat HTV than the raised stones.
Free fonts - As circle size is flexible, you can use free fonts such as perfograma for text.
Resizable - The size of the design isn't restricted by fixed stone sizes, so you can resize to any dimension.
Flat - More comfortable for babies to lie on flat HTV than the raised stones.
Free fonts - As circle size is flexible, you can use free fonts such as perfograma for text.
Rhinestone tool on Silhouette Studio Designer edition Software
If you have the Designer Edition of the Silhouette Cameo software, it comes with a Rhinestone tool. In the screenshot below, you can see how I used the tool to convert a regular cut file from the design store of a bear by echo park into a rhinestone design. The tool is pretty good, but not perfect. I find some designs convert brilliantly, whereas I wrestle for hours with others.
Designer Edition Rhinestone Tool Screenshot
freebie Bonus Extra Project.
Once you have your design, either directly from the design store, converted using the rhinestone tool or from a free online source such as glittermotifs.nl, you are ready to go. The next steps are the same as any HTV project: mirror, cut on the non-shiny side, weed and press. You can watch in the youtube video above, or read in my earlier blog tutorial on HTV.
A bonus result of using the HTV method is that the removed vinyl that this normally discarded can actually be used for another project. I used it on a greetings card, and also experimented with using it on a bib, but unfortunately the plastic lining gave me issues. It would work great with 100% cotton bibs though :)
A bonus result of using the HTV method is that the removed vinyl that this normally discarded can actually be used for another project. I used it on a greetings card, and also experimented with using it on a bib, but unfortunately the plastic lining gave me issues. It would work great with 100% cotton bibs though :)
Using the weeded vinyl for other projects, such as a bib or greetings card
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